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Show Friday. May 24. 2002. THI" DAILY HF.RAI.D. (www HarkThclk'rald.coim. Odds & Ends Nude models lobby for better pay, benefits PHILADELPHIA (AP) Several dozen models who pose in the nude for art students have formed a union and are agitating for higher wages and improved benefits. The fledgling Philadelphia Models Guild also wants a place to change other than in the bathroom, a place to hang street clothes and a screen for privacy in the classroom. Cushioned floor pads wouldn't hurt, either. "By uniting together, we could become regarded more as professionals and not as unskilled people off the street," said model Tomas Dura, a flamenco dancer. Most professional artists' models in the Philadelphia area a group estimated to be in the hundreds make between $9.50 and $12 an hour. The models guild wants an hourly wage of $15, with some benefits, said Claire Hankins, one of the leaders of the group. The models say they not only feel underpaid, but unappreciated. Littell said she was once asked to get on the floor of an unswept classroom filthy with charcoal. "A comfortable model produces a comfortable pose, which produces a comfortable artist and a better painting," said Jym Paris, an opera singer and actor who has been modeling for 10 years. " Bank robber commandeers wrong car Going up and down nabs record for pilot , A pilot has apparently LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) smashed a world record by doing a whole lot of taking off and landing. Robert Magniccari, a professional traffic reporter and advertising banner pilot from Rockaway, N.Y., completed 190 takeoffs and landings in a period at two New Jersey airports. Magniccari broke the previous record of 157 when he landed his Cessna 172 at Lakewood Airport around 5 a.m. Tuesday. He made his final landing about four hours later. "I feel great, I just feel great," Magniccari told the Asbury Park Press. "I got knocked around (by winds) a lot (Monday) afternoon, but I didn't care." It was not immediately known if Magniccari's record had been confirmed by officials with the Guinness Book of World Records. Magniccari, with the help of instructor pilots Paul Jancsy and David Anfora of Island Air Services, flew between Lakewood Airport and Robert J. Miller Airpark in Berkeley. Page A 1.3 SWy shows chimps use hammers By PAUL RECER AP Science Writer up to seven years for them to learn. It looks easy, but if you sit down and try it is a very difficult task." A WASHINGTON band of chimpanzees in West Africa routinely swing crude stone hammers to crack open nuts, a sophisticated use of tools the apes have been teaching to each new generation for more than a century. Using carefully selected stones weighing up to 33 pounds, the chimps pound the tough shell of the panda nut to extract a kernel that is an important part of the animal's diet, researchers report Friday in the journal Science. "It is a very skillful behavior that takes up to seven years for them to learn," said Melissa Panger, a George Washington University of researcher and the study. "It looks easy, but if you sit down and try it is a very difficult task." The panda nuts fall to the ground inside an outer husk. Inside the husk is a golfball-size- d nut covered by a shell that can require up to a ton of pressure to break open. Yet, if the animals pound too hard, the nut shatters and is inedible, Panger said. , high-energ- smaller stones, imitating their parent. The researchers said the technique is known to only some bands of West African chimpanzees. It has not been seen among chimps in central Africa, although the apes there have nuts and stones available to. them. This suggests that nut smashing is a cultural, learned behavior that has not spread widely among the "It is a very skillful behavior that takes nut-smashi- Melissa Panger. study Nut cracking demonstrates a degree of sophisticated learning because it required the animals to select hammer stones at a distant rock outcropping and then carry them to the anvil. Panger said selection of the stones some requires thought by the chimps: The crude hammers have to be flat on one side, heavy enough to smash the nuts and have a place to grasp. They have to use it without crushing their fingers," said Panger. "Some of these hammers have been used so many times that they have deep pits, suggesting that they have been used for many generations, over and over again." Mothers teach their children to bang on nuts, and some young chimps have been seen hitting nuts with "What is remarkable is that they are controlling the force precisely," she added. Inside the shell are three nutritious kernels. During y season, some chimps spend two or three hours a day opening as many as 100 panda nuts. The nuts can provide up to 3,000 calories a day, researchers said. nut-smashi- The chimps establish stations, usually centered on a battered root of a hardwood tree that they use as an anvil. Panger said the chimps leave the hammer stones beside the anvils and some of the tools have apparently been used for generations. Some animals have been seen carrying pounding stones from one anvil to another, just as a repairman might carry tools from place to place, she said.. nut-cracki- or A suspected bank robber whose TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) getaway driver took off without him jumped into the next car he saw an unmarked police car. Eric D. Davis of Detroit jumped into the car, waved a gun and told officer Anthony Duncan and city employee Ray O'Rourke to drive, police said. Duncan, who was not in uniform, and O'Rourke looked at each other for a moment, then the officer jumped into the back seat and took the gun away. "I just reacted," Duncan said. "I knew the gun was loaded. Just thank God things turned out the way it did." Davis, 31, was charged with aggravated robbery and kidnapping, police said. Pt.no. I'kih apes. "There has to be knowledge of the size and hardness of the rock," said Julio Mer-cade- r, another George Wash- ington University researcher and the first author of the study. "And that knowledge is transmitted from chimp to chimp and from generation to generation." In their research, Mercad-e- r and Panger used archaeomethods to dig logical around an anvil site. They found stone chips that had apparently broken off stone hammers in past generations. Age dating of deposits at one site showed that the apes had used it as a station for at least 110 years, Panger said. nut-cracki- f 24-ho- Oven-stashe- d 1 Get more Anytime Minutes than ever from America's 1 Wireless Carrier. cash goes up in flames A man who apparentMOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) hid cash his in in $20,000 ly girlfriend's oven lost nearly half of it when it caught fire from the pilot light. "We are trying to determine if there is a criminal element to this," said police detective Capt. Robert Kelly. The Monday apartment blaze was quickly extinguished and police recovered $10,780 when firefighters called them to report what was burning. "We found out it was U.S. currency that was burning," said Fire Chief Ed Bruno. "A lot of it." The money was in denominations ranging from tens to hundreds. 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